Hello, Brother is the first episode of the eighth season of Template:The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and fifty-sixth episode of the series overall.
Summary
THE BEGINNING OF THE END — Months after Damon and Enzo mysteriously vanished from the Armory vault, Stefan tirelessly pushes forward with their search, while Bonnie struggles holding onto hope that they will be found. Meanwhile, a dangerous encounter with an unexpected visitor leaves Caroline and Alaric fearing that someone – or something – may be targeting their family. Finally, after following some mysterious clues, Stefan realizes that whatever has a hold of his brother may have a more damaging grip over him than he could have ever imagined.
Plot
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Cast
Main Cast
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Co-Starring
Uncredited
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Trivia
- Antagonist: Sybil.
- The opening of the episode is a callback to the opening of the Pilot where there's a couple talking in a car then driving into fog with Damon standing in the road in front of them.
- Bonnie is writing in her diary for Elena telling her about recent events including the search for Damon and Enzo as well as trying to find out what took them.
- Damon has turned off his humanity for the third and final time in the series.
- Enzo has been leaving little clues for Bonnie about what was in the Armory vault.
- Damon threatens Bonnie's life if he doesn't stop leaving clues for her.
- The Armory Monster is revealed to be a Siren who assumes her final form at the end of the episode. This is after being feed bad people by Damon and Enzo.
- As of this episode, Caroline has been featured in more episodes than Elena.
Body Count
- Cindy - Drained of Blood; killed by Enzo
- Buck - Dismemberment; killed by Sybil
- Virginia St. John - Blood Loss; killed by herself
- Artist - Dismemberment; killed by Sybil
Continuity
- Damon and Elena's first meeting where he thought she was Katherine at first is shown in a flashback which was originally seen in The Departed.
Locations
- Unknown warehouse
- Mystic Falls, Virginia
- Enzo's Safehouse
- Grove Hill, Virginia
- Asheville, North Carolina
- Mental Health Center (video only)
Behind the Scenes
- "Hello, Brother" is Damon's first line of dialogue from the first episode of the first season and of the series. Stefan in the first episode of the third season would greet Damon with "Hello, brother" when he first appears as a call back to the Pilot episode.
- This is the last season premiere of the series.
- This episode marks the first appearance of Sybil, Georgie and Seline.
- This is the second season premiere not to feature Elena, Jeremy and Tyler.
- Damon, Stefan, Caroline and Bonnie are the only characters to appear in every season premiere in all eight seasons.
- This is the first episode to be written by Kevin Williamson since season three's The Birthday.
- Filming of the episode ended on August 5, 2016. [2]
- This is the first episode to be produced by Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder.
- Hashtag during the airing is #EndofaTerror
Cultural References
- Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James. It is the first installment in the Fifty Shades trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey.
- It has already been referenced to in Fifty Shades of Grayson.
Quotes
- Damon: "This is it... This is the beginning of the end."
- Stefan: "What was in that vault?"
- Damon: "I've seen how this ends. Humanity can't save me from it. Once the Devil comes a calling... you're done."
- Stefan (to Bonnie): "You have to follow every single clue like it's the one that's gonna lead us to them"
- Bonnie: "I'm in."
- Damon: "This is it... This is the beginning of the end."
- Stefan: "What has a hold of you? What was in that vault?"
- Damon: "I've seen how this ends. Humanity can't save me from it. Once the Devil comes a calling... you're done."
- The Devil Trailer Extended
- Bonnie: "The search for Damon and Enzo goes on and on and we're no closer to knowing where they are or who or what took them..."
- Stefan (to Bonnie): "You have to follow every single clue like it's the one that's gonna lead us to them"
- Bonnie: "Whatever we need to do, I'm in."
- Damon: "This is it... This is the beginning of the end."
- Virginia: "It has come for them!
- Caroline: "What is it?"
- Enzo: "When does this end? How many more bodies until you're full?"
- Damon: "Get an answer!?"
- Stefan: "What has a hold of you? What was in that vault, Damon?"
- Damon: "Humanity can't save me from it. Once the Devil comes a calling... you're done."
- Alaric: "To be honest Bonnie, I don't know what to think anymore."
- Sneak Peek #2
- Stefan: "I have to treat every single clue like its the one that's gonna lead us to them."
- Bonnie: "Stefan, every time we do this, I let myself hope a little."
- Stefan: "Please don't give up."
- Bonnie: "Of course but don't ask me to have hope."
- Sneak Peek #3
Please see the Season Seven finale.
- Matt: "Please take me with you."
- Penny: "Sorry Matt, there's a better life for you out there, you just have to wake up and find it. Wake Up!"
- Medic: "He's conscious."
- Sneak Peek #4
- Sneak Peek #5
- Investigator (to Stefan and Bonnie): "Oh come on, it took me four hours to get control of the scene from the local idiots. Now they're letting press pass the tape?
- Stefan: "We're not press. We're not anyone. Now tell us what you know."
- Sneak Peek #6
- Bonnie: "Probably, because it has nothing to do with what we are looking for."
- Stefan: "Yeah, well I can't let myself think like that. I have to treat every single clue like its the one that's gonna lead us to them."
- Bonnie: "Stefan, every time we do this, I let myself hope a little. Then we end up back at zero, my heart crushes in on itself a little bit more. I don't know how much of my heart has left you know?"
- Stefan: "Bonnie, no one not Caroline, not Elena, no one know how to fight longer or harder or better than you. If you give up I wont have anything else to hold on to. Please don't give up."
- Bonnie: "Of course, but don't ask me to have hope. Hope hurts and I don't wanna hurt anymore."
- Webclip #2
- Enzo: "Dumped the girl."
- Damon: "Why? She could have been desert."
- Enzo: "You know the rules, last night was pushing it. It wants real evil not these light weight losers we've been feeding it."
- Damon: "Ah, you should get on that."
- Enzo: "I'm trying, she's more your doing."
- Damon: "This is a really good book."
- Enzo: " How long is this bad guy slaughter going to last? How many more bodies will it take before this is over?"
- Damon: "It can hear you."
- Enzo: "It can get into our minds. It knows how I feel."
- Damon: "There is no reason to go out of your way to aggravate it."
- Enzo: "Do you have any control left? Me, I'm down to about, I don't know... 2%."
- Damon: "No freewill needed. I flipped my switched, humanity off. I'm on full cruise control. I recommend it."
- Enzo: "Oh, so do you really have nothing left inside?"
- Damon: "Just my winning sense of humor and renewed appreciation for chick lit."
Multimedia
Soundtrack
"I Am A Nightmare" – Brand New
"Run Run Blood" – Phantogram
"Separated" – Robot Koch feat. Mree
"Doing It To Death" – The Kills
"The Wreck of Our Hearts" – Sleeping Wolf
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See also
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